1606.—Quiros (Span.) reaches Tahiti (Sagittaria), and other South Sea Islands.
1606.—Torres (Span.) discovers Torres Strait. Dutch reach Australia.
1608.—Champlain (Fr.) discovers Lake Ontario.
1610.—H. Hudson (Eng.) reaches Hudson Bay and makes discoveries in North America.
1614-17.—Spillbergen (Dut.) circumnavigated the globe.
1616.—W. Baffin (Eng.) enters Baffin Bay.
1616.—La Maire and Schouten (Dut.) round Cape Horn.
1616.—Dirk Hartog (Dut.) sails up west coast of Australia.
1618.—G. Thompson (Eng.) sails up Gambia.